Intentionality - Science topic

We have fabricated and characterized asymmetric gap-engineered junctions and transmon devices. To create Josephson junctions with asymmetric gaps, Ti was used to proximitize and lower the superconducting gap of the Al counter-electrode. DC IV measurements of these small, proximitized Josephson junctions show a reduced gap and larger excess current...

The online social network is the largest network, more than 4 billion users use social media and with its rapid growth, the risk of maintaining the integrity of data has tremendously increased. There are several kinds of security challenges in online social networks (OSNs). Many abominable behaviors try to hack social sites and misuse the data avai...

The output torque capability of a dual-three-phase permanent magnet synchronous machine (DTP-PMSM) can be increased by intentionally injecting proper harmonic currents, which can be beneficial in some applications that require high torque density. To achieve this, current references containing multiple harmonic components with time-varying frequenc...

Significant and rapid advancements in cancer research have been attributed to Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, AI's role and impact on the clinical side has been limited. This discrepancy manifests due to the overlooked, yet profound, differences in the clinical and research practices in oncology. Our contribution seeks to scrutinize physicia...

Recent studies show that it is possible to detect technical dept automatically from source code comments intentionally created by developers, a phenomenon known as self-admitted technical debt. This study proposes a system by which a comment or commit is classified as one of five dept types, namely, requirement , design, defect, test, and documenta...

RESUMEN El presente artículo presenta una revisión de estudios sobre la escritura académica a partir de una muestra inicial de 216 artículos indexados en Scopus y Web of Science. Analiza la problemática en cuatro ejes: contexto, individuo, universidad y texto. Establece que la escritura académica es una capacidad cogni-tiva intransferible vinculada...

This essay is part of a book that links patterns in Greek poetry, Plato's dialogues, and Aristotle's ethics, politics, Poetics and rhetoric. This particular essay shows that Socrates is acting as a dialectician as he describes it at the end of the Phaedrus. The dialectician takes a soul and figures out what kind of language to use to try and lead t...

Many primate species have been observed descending to the forest floor to intentionally consume soil (geophagy) at licks. The practice of geophagy is assumed to provide health benefits, such as mineral supplementation and/or gastrointestinal tract protection. We collected data on geophagy events through the use of camera traps at Tambopata National...

Background: Systemic inflammatory response remains a poorly understood cause of morbidity and mortality after traumatic injury. Recent nonhuman primate (NHP) trauma models have been used to characterize the systemic response to trauma, but none have incorporated a critical care phase without the use of general anesthesia. We describe the developme...

The development of AI has reached a level of sophistication where it can generate new content based on internalized datasets, including both text and images, across different AI products. As of 2023, AI assistant is being used for testing and path-finding purposes and has garnered significant attention from various industries worldwide. At ZORALab,...

Translation as a mental operation follows the same fundamental principle as everything mental, namely intentionality. In translation studies as well as in philosophy, especially in those approaches that are interested in translation issues, we rarely come across an approach that has brought to bear the intentionality in connection with the translat...

The world is witnessing tremendous development and progress in all areas of life, including the field of education and the means used in it. Therefore, the researchers sought to identify the use of (industrial) murals and graphic expression and their impact on acquiring the concepts of the Prophet’s biography among students of the Department of Qur...

This article introduces the phenomenon of intentionality in media texts with a precedent phenomenon in the headline. The author studied the way intentionality develops, functions, and structures itself. Journalists often incorporate precedent phenomena into the media text to demonstrate their intention and creativity. However, the intentional natur...

Natural fiber (NF) is one of the many resources that nature has provided. NFs decompose quickly and are biodegradable, renewable, and cost-effective. It may be scavenged from a variety of plant and animal sources. They are employed as reinforcing materials in polymers for NF composite development. Because of its environmental friendliness and long-...

In northern China, four animals—the fox, weasel, hedgehog, and snake—are commonly believed to have the magical power of immortality, and they are referred to as the Four Animal Spirits (四大门, sidamen). Researchers have regarded these spirits as part of a form of shamanism, but what I learned from my fieldwork in Beijing suggests a different understa...

This paper examines the enormous prevalence of threats to media freedom and the safety of Nigerian journalists. The goals of the study were to identify and investigate various threats to media freedom and safety of journalists in Nigeria, examine media freedom as it is defined in Nigeria's Constitution and propose potential strategies to protect Ni...

Cultural projects, particularly when aiming at social impact, are usually the result of the context, values, and social fabric. Some endogenous factors, such as governance models and availability of resources, mainly committed human resources, could explain their particular development as well, despite being widely recurrent. Cultural policies are...

The COVID-19 outbreak led to major disruptions in food systems across the globe. In the United States’ Chicago region, the outbreak created immediate concerns around increased hunger, food insecurity, supply chain disruptions, and loss of local liveli­hoods. This was especially evident in communities of color, which faced disproportionate impacts f...

Natural fiber (NF) is one of the many resources that nature has provided. NFs decompose quickly and are biodegradable, renewable, and cost-effective. It may be scavenged from a variety of plant and animal sources. They are employed as reinforcing materials in polymers for NF composite development. Because of its environmental friendliness and long-...

The dominant U.S. cultural norms shape science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and in turn, these norms shape science communication, further perpetuating oppressive systems. Despite being a core scientific skill, science communication research and practice lack inclusive training spaces that center marginalized identities. We address thi...

We present a method for measuring the transmission loss of an optical fiber using simplified optical correlation-domain reflectometry. By intentionally lowering the spatial resolution of the system, we observe the Rayleigh scattered signal for the first time without the need for a frequency shifter. Using this method, we simultaneously measure the...

The study aims to identify the contents of the reports The news that is produced with augmented reality technology on Sky News Arabia, by identifying the topics, goals and news values they contain, and the extent to which real objects are used in the production of these reports. The study relied on the descriptive analytical approach, and the conte...

The current study aimed to reveal the reality of the use of teaching methods in Algerian primary schools in light of the competency approach, and to assess the extent to which teachers are aware of these methods, as well as to identify the most important factors that make them use certain teaching methods and not others; To achieve the objectives o...

This paper analyzes the work of Ludwig von Mises in search of commonalities with complexity economics. Alternatively to the literature on the links between Austrian economics and complexity economics, this paper shows that many elements of Misesian economics, such as the notion of entrepreneurship or the characterizations of uncertainty and the mar...

In the early 2010s, scientists realized that CRISPR/Cas9, a bacterial immune defense system against viruses that involves the CRISPR-associated protein #9 (Cas9) endonuclease enzyme, single-guide RNAs (sgRNAs), and PAM recognition, could be used to intentionally manipulate genes, essentially changing gene expression and regulation in such a way tha...

This paper analyzes Netflix’s thumbnails within click-bait and psychological context, in order to talk about the intentionality present. Since algorithm tries to provoke the user to click on the thumbnails, one can talk about the intention to deceive. However, since the process is automated, talking about intentions means ascribing intentions to an...

Persuasion is a form of social influence in which an audience is intentionally encouraged to adopt an idea, attitude, or course of action. There are several factors that can influence the persuasiveness of a message. Mindfulness can be invoked in people to sway their reaction to the persuasive message. Incentives can be used to create motivation, a...

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Nowadays, numerous applications incorporate machine learning (ML) algorithms due to their prominent achievements. However, many studies in the field of computer vision have shown that ML can be fooled by intentionally crafted instances, called adversarial examples. These adversarial examples take advantage of the intrinsic vulnerability of ML model...

John Protevi's project aims to combine the embodied school of affective cognition with Deleuze's poststructuralist philosophy. I examine the validity of Protevi's claim that his reading of Deleuze manages to "sharpen, extend and / or radicalize some of their [4EA] explicit presuppositions, that Deleuze lets us go "above" and "below" the abstract su...

Fake news and storytelling have been approached as completely different constructs. The former is intentionally and demonstrably false or misleading information, whereas storytelling produces a narrative with veracity and authenticity that are not easily verifiable. However, both can deceive readers and are inserted within a social and historical c...

Plant-based diets, both vegan and vegetarian, which emphasize grains, vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, and seeds are increasingly popular for health as well as financial, ethical, and religious reasons. The medical literature clearly demonstrates that whole food plant-based diets can be both nutritionally sufficient and medically beneficial. Howe...

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are recently shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where attackers embed hidden backdoors in the DNN model by injecting a few poisoned examples into the training dataset. While extensive efforts have been made to detect and remove backdoors from backdoored DNNs, it is still not clear whether a backdoor-free clean m...

In this article we consider how smell becomes a social construction rather than a biological establishment. Sociologist have rarely researched and probably still ignored the value of odors in the social interaction in terms of social class, ethnic and gender relations. This paper briefly discussed about smelling and self-identity, group identity, m...

Geographic origin and terroir are very important parameters for wine and significantly impact price. Incorrect declarations are known to occur intentionally to increase profit, thus, measures for control are required. Accompanying paperwork has been shown to be unreliable, thus, control of the product itself is required. Here we investigate and com...

The management of biological invasions, which pose a growing threat to natural resources and human well-being, is critical for reducing associated negative impacts. As part of the process of developing a strategy for the management of biological invasions in the South African National Biodiversity Institute’s (SANBI) gardens, we collated a list of...

Background: Children have begun to be exposed to pornography at a very young age, which is 4 years. Intentionally or not, access to pornography has a brain-damaging impact. Pornography damages the human brain worse than drugs. Objective: This study aims to identify behavioral differences in pornography consumption in male and female pupils aged 9-1...

As we meet for the Asian Mission Advance 14 th Triennial Convention and focus on "Missions in the Post-Pandemic Era: challenges and opportunities in the new normal world." one of the key changes we will need to wrestle with for mission strategy will be what biblical ekklesia looks like today. As will be seen below, our mission (A3 formerly known as...

Due to the wide availability of various ready-to-use image tampering software tools, image manipulation has become widespread nowadays. Tampered images are often used intentionally for unlawful and malicious purposes. One of the most common forms of image manipulation today includes the Image Splicing attack. Image splicing can be defined as genera...

Social ontological inquiry has been pursued in analytic philosophy as well as in the social scientific tradition of critical realism. These traditions have remained largely separate despite partly overlapping concerns and similar underlying strategies of argumentation. They have also both been the subject of similar criticisms based on naturalistic...

The paper discusses the need for an EU wide ban of microplastics. The focus is on the announced EU regulation on the ban of intentionally added microplastics. The paper firstly presents published results from research in natural science on the widespread of microplastic pollution and its influence on human health and life of animals and plants. The...

Atmospheric water harvesting using reticular materials is an innovation that has the potential to change the world. Using covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for capturing water holds great promise because COFs are metal-free, stable under working conditions, and their structure can be intentionally designed to meet the requirements for this applica...

Main conclusion Cultivated tomato presented lower constitutive volatiles, reduced morphological and chemical defenses, and increased leaf nutritional quality that affect its resistance against the specialist herbivore Tuta absoluta compared to its wild relatives. Abstract Plant domestication process has selected desirable agronomic attributes that...

Teaching and learning through a global pandemic have significantly changed PK-12 education. As a result, consideration is necessary to determine how these changes impact how preservice teachers are prepared to effectively design and implement eLearning, especially as a tool that works cohesively with face-to-face learning experiences. While eLearni...

Engineering designers often generate multiple concepts to increase novelty and diversity among early solution candidates. Many past studies have focused on creating new concepts “from scratch;” however, designers at every level become fixated on their initial designs and struggle to generate different ideas. In line with prior work on design transf...

The aim of this research is to identify (the effectiveness of a model for a proposed educational design according to the theory of conceptual fields in the achievement of geography in the students of the fifth grade of literature) An experimental design with partial control has been adopted by the researcher, and the researcher has chosen intention...

This study aims to (1)Analyzing employee perceptions of Pak Dasman's laying hens farm, (2) Analyzing employee attitudes towards Pak Dasman's laying hens farm(3)Analyze what factors are related to employee perceptions of Pak Dasman's laying hens farm, (4) Analyzing the relationship between employee perceptions and attitudes towards Mr. Dasman's layi...

Brandy stabilization is an important step aimed at decanting the suspended organic and inorganic particles that may cause undesirable turbidity (cloudiness or haze) in brandies, affecting the physico-chemical stability, the organoleptic characteristics, and the consumer’s quality perception of the brandy. This phenomenon originates from insoluble s...

Deep Learning (DL) is being applied in various domains, especially in safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. Consequently, it is of great significance to ensure the robustness of these methods and thus counteract uncertain behaviors caused by adversarial attacks. In this paper, we use gradient heatmaps to analyze the response char...

Many mergers destroy shareholder value because managers intentionally waste corporate resources to pursue private benefits. Using textual analysis, we link industry conditions as reflected in acquirer peers' 10-K statements to acquirer announcement abnormal returns. We find that more negative industry conditions are associated with higher acquirer...

Students' participation is one of the forefront responsibilities of every teacher. Through a well-designed discursive move, students take responsibility in their learning and take ownership of the development of the lesson. Since classroom talk is highly recognized, this study was conducted to examine the discourse patterns in the major subjects of...

Countless scholars have wrestled with the ambiguities and complexities in determining the role of the noema in Husserl’s theory of intentionality since his transcendental turn, and consequently converted what was intended to be a structural solution to a problem into a contested problem itself.1 Shifting emphasis from the ‘whatness’, or ontological...

Sambaquis are a specific type of archaeological site found on the Brazilian coast that contain a large number of human burials and were constructed by progressively and intentionally accumulating shells and fish bones. Brazilian archaeologists have suggested that these groups comprised a stable system during their occupation of the coast, especiall...

The gradient information of multilayer perceptron with a linear neuron is modified with functional derivative for the global minimum search benchmarking problems. From this approach, we show that the landscape of the gradient derived from given continuous function using functional derivative can be the MLP-like form with ax+b neurons. In this exten...

The aim of current research is to identify the impact of strategic fitness on rituals in the workplace in the General Company for the Textile and Leather Industry. Given the importance of the two variables in the future of its work and its ability to make decisions and the capabilities emanating from its orientation towards supporting rituals in th...

In this paper, the authors present information about both intergenerational trauma and an ecological case conceptualization model to assist counselors as they develop treatment plans and determine appropriate interventions. Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological model is introduced as a way to help professional counselors in a variety of settings explore a mo...

With the proliferation of globalization in architectural profession, the trade between China and the United States, as the largest importer and exporter, is the industry leader and trendsetter in transnational architectural practice. However, despite the dominance of shopping malls in China–US architectural trade, there is still a notable gap in sy...

Anion vacancy engineering (AVE) has been widely used to improve the Li‐ion and Na‐ion storage of conversion‐type anode materials. However, AVE is still an emerging strategy in K‐ion batteries which is promising for large‐scale energy storage. In addition, the role of anion vacancies on ion storage is far from clear, despite several proposed explana...

The harvest of meat from wild animals is essential for the nutrition of many human populations in the Neotropics. Specific techniques are used to access wild meat in this region, but collecting meat from road killed animals, or purposely run over animals to kill and consume the meat have not been documented so far. In this study we interviewed four...

Research data mismanagement (RDMM) is a serious threat to accountability, reproducibility, and re-use of data. In a recent article in this journal, it was argued that RDMM can take two forms: intentional research misconduct or unintentional questionable research practice (QRP). I disagree because the scale for severity of consequences of research m...

Technical debt describes situations where developers write less-than-optimal code to meet project milestones. However, this debt accumulation often results in future developer effort to live with or fix these quality issues. To better manage this debt, developers may document their sub-optimal code as comments in the code (i.e., self-admitted techn...

Non-doxastic conceptions of delusion have emphasized the experiential nature of delusions. The paper offers the conceptual tools for rendering intelligible how delusional language can meaningfully function in the form of avowals of experience. The argument proceeds from a conception of (pre-)delusional feelings of unreality that allows and even pre...

Background Manually keeping up-to-date with regulations such as directives, guidance, laws, and ordinances related to cell and gene therapy is a labor-intensive process. We used machine learning (ML) algorithms to create an augmented intelligent system to optimize systematic screening of global regulations to improve efficiency and reduce overall l...

During the maintenance period of a future fusion reactor power plant, called DEMOnstration Power Plant (DEMO), remotely handled casks are required to confine and handle DEMO in-vessel components during their transportation between the reactor and the active maintenance facility. In order to limit the dispersion of activated dust, a Contamination Co...

Advancements in chemical, medical, cosmetic, and plastic producing industries have improved agricultural yields, health and human life in general. As a negative consequence, a plethora of chemicals are intentionally and unintentionally released to terrestrial and aquatic environments with sometimes devastating effects for entire ecosystems. One mit...

Previous studies show that the QAnon conspiracy theory is especially popular among American evangelical Christians. The paper investigates the reasons behind this relationship. We hypothesize a mediation relationship between evan-gelical dogma and how it is practiced on the one hand and the susceptibility for conspiracy thinking on the other hand....

Obstacles in the succession process in family farming have been worrying families and instigating academia for decades and worldwide. The absence of successors generates uncertainties, while well-balanced processes of family succession can serve as an example for conducting future actions. Therefore, the question arises: Which aspects determine thi...

Reduction of the microbial load of soiled carcasses is essential in the production of game meat. Rinsing with water is a common practice in handling game carcasses to remove any visible contamination. In this study, microbiological investigations were performed on carcasses of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), inoculated with a mixture of gastrointes...

A literary critic Andrei Nemzer was one of the first to draw attention to the work of Alexei Slapovsky, a writer inextricably linked with Saratov. Responses to his works have been published in newspapers and “thick” journals since the early 1990s. The list of the main characters of literature, which Nemzer compiled annually, is not complete without...

The intensification of Scottish salmon farming has been associated with increasing demands for the monitoring and safeguarding of farmed salmon welfare. Continued growth of farm productivity, while avoiding adverse effects on salmon welfare, will require the development of effective welfare assessment tools. This paper reports on a survey of the Sc...

The advantages of eddy current dampers over conventional fluid dampers include the ability to produce resistive forces with no contact between the components wherein damping forces are generated, resulting in a less degradable mechanism. Thus far, the apparent mass effect, referred to as inertance, in an eddy current damper employing rotational mot...

Medan City is one of the cities that has a number of diverse historical heritage, one of which can be seen clearly are the historical buildings. Preservation of history, including the heritage of buildings, is an important way for humans to convey an understanding of the past to future generations. In getting to know historical buildings, we can le...

A group of iron artefacts were excavated from the stratigraphic layers at Kaman-Kalehöyük in Central Anatolia, which were dated to the Middle and Early Bronze Ages. Some of them were re-analysed to discuss the state of iron production during such early periods, in terms of intentional carburization. The artefacts were re-examined via a minimally in...

Research in psychology related to the conceptualization of empathy has been on the rise in the last decades. However, we argue that there is still space for further research to help capture the important notion of empathy and its theoretical and conceptual depth. Following a critical review of the current state of the research that conceptualizes a...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission intentionally impacted the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022, and this kinetic impact changed Dimorphos’ orbit around its binary companion Didymos. This first planetary defense test explored technological readiness for this method of asteroid deflection.

This article presents eight pebbles with ochre residues from the context of the Middle Palaeolithic sites of Eastern Crimea. The finds come from different layers of the Ak-Kaya type Micoquian multilayered sites Zaskalnaya V, Zaskalnaya VI (Kolosovskaya) and Prolom II. Neanderthal bone remains were recovered in some of these layers. The age of finds...

Background Early recovery from shock improves prognosis in septic shock patients. We determined whether cytokine modulation by Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) following acute care surgery resulted in stable hemodynamics in them. To investigate our hypothesis, we measured proinflammatory cytokines IL-6, IL-1ra and the coagulation cascade...

Introduction Student motivation and engagement underpin educational success, and recent research has found they are lowest in middle high school, especially for boys. At the same time, education systems are recognizing that academic performance is necessary but not sufficient to prepare young people for the adult world, and so-called “21st Century...

Grieve Chelwa, Darrick Hamilton, and Avi Green offer a vision of stratification economics in which social identities interact with multiple forms of domination to reproduce inequality over time. Afar cry from the individualism inherent in traditional economic theory, Chelwa, Hamilton, and Green illustrate how the market-choice moorings of neolibera...